"Hey, this is the best academy in the Thundercloud Ninja Country, our Elite Academy. It brings together the most outstanding children from across the entire country's population of one billion."
After bringing the youngsters to the entrance of the Elite Academy, Tamura Hiroshi introduced it to them.
The academy grounds had been expanded several times. The campus was larger than the entirety of the old Kumogakure, and even the Elite Academy alone covered a vast area, with more than ten thousand students enrolled.
The youngsters were all excited. This was the finest academy in the Thundercloud Ninja Country—arguably the finest in the entire Ninja World—and they had the good fortune to study here.
"Has the Thundercloud Ninja Country's population already reached three hundred million?"
Shikamaru Nara was even more astonished by the country's population. He had read some historical Classics: when Konoha was still in the Land of Fire, the country's population had been small. Yet now Kumogakure had a population of one billion.
That was astonishing.
"That's mainly thanks to the various agricultural machines and organic fertilizers developed by Kumogakure. They've steadily increased food production. With enough food, people can feel secure about having children."
Tamura Hiroshi smiled as he explained. Once a population started to boom, it could grow at an astonishing rate.
Just like how, in his previous life, many people had seven maternal aunts and eight maternal uncles. That wasn't a figure of speech; they really did.
This world was the same. Agriculture used to rely entirely on human labor, with practically no machines, mainly because of the influence of the ninja.
It just went to show how foolish it was to make a group of mercenaries whom anyone could hire into a country's armed forces.
Peace only started to take hold after the Fourth Shinobi